Your right i was gonna say his communicating explaining things with different approachs (the way music works) i wish he'd taught and explained like this on his first instructional on vhs. On a recent UA-cam video Paul talks about learning pop songs (vocal melodys) how lead singer never sing the 7th note even though the vocal melody is in a minor penatonic scale. Pop singers don't sing up and down scales .I would like hear a glow pop singer sing a cromatic scale using octave disspacments at warped speed. Octaves displaced in dimintional hyper space do not sound as good slow. dejental
The good thing is that's what most of great guitarist community does, they support each other, respect the elder, befriend with all guitarist, and appreciate new comers. Love it!
Paul is a down to earth guy. Everybody was bashing Yngwie in the early 1990s, and a lot of the guitarists who bashed him have an eight hour job now, and aren't in music. Paul is sincere. He doesn't bash other musicians to make himself look better.
I always thought this bashing was unfair, because even to this time his guitar tone, his feel while playing is goosebump material... the neo-classical noodleing is not everyones cup of tea, ok, but his tone alone is majestic.
Paul G must be considered one of the top guitar players around today. He is the only player that was able to reinvent himself after the 80s guitar hero thing the super fast of the virtuoso. He became better and better during the years, his technique and style never stops or involve in itself. Look how he used to play with Mr Big, he was great, but 20 years later he is not repeating the same licks, he moved on! rock on Paul
Amen. He is one of the best guitar players in the world - Period. This guy, like you said, never stops improving. He is so damn accurate, fast, and melodic at the same time, I just cannot stop listening to his material.
I agree, and besides Paul is being very humble, actually I am pretty sure there is Paul's stuff that Yngwie couldn't play as good as Paul does, not mentioning he has the ability to "teach" there are a lot of incredible players, but that don't make them good music teachers
Petrucci, Gilbert, MacAlpine, Moore, etc., all said, "Yngwie scared me into playing better." Almost verbatim. Without a doubt, Malmsteen was the GOD of the mid 1980's on the scene that made Van Halen's incredible solos seem slopping. Malmsteen CLEANED UP guitar playing for shredders and it went from metal to mental playing.
@@marshallp7013 They both helped revolutionize electric guitar playing. Pre-Yngwie and Post-Yngwie was a huge difference in the guitar scene, same way EVH blew the doors off in 1978 with tapping they never heard before (people tapped here and there beforehand but never to the level EVH did it.) They were both hugely significant and influential. Just because you can argue EVH was even more popular than Yngwie doesn't mean Yngwie didn't revolutionize guitar as well. Yngwie was still huge too.
@@CriminalOne Agree, it's too bad most people give Yngwie crap today (I can see why somehow) because it kind of diminish how insane he used to be. Rising force came out when he was 21.freaking.years old. I consider this album such a huge milestone in guitar playing, it has everything. People that say he has no feeling/just play fast (ok maybe today yes) are completely foolish, and I doubt they have listened to his early album. He's a genius. We're so lucky that today we can listen to bootleg of his solo in the 80s, they are mindblowing. I'm not a fan of his later album, but what he did with Alcatrazz and his first 3 albums alone are incredible. I think he should drop the whole image he has of being stuck in the 90s and maybe just dress up more casual, he's becoming more and more of an Elvis impersonator for metal. I doubt he will change but well. Real recognise real, and while I listen to a lot of other guitarist, Yngwie will always be the king for me.
The first song of Yngwie’s I heard was You don’t remember I’ll never forget. I was not scared by it. It was magical, energetic, ferocious....beautiful. Pure inspiration.
For sure, that solo really is magical. It's about as perfect of a solo as you can get, and I love how the main solo bleeds into the outro solo. Just pure awesomeness. Cheers
He is awesome. I'm goning to keep that "Thank You, Yngwie". That's something we all should say instead of fighting for who is the best. We must thank to all this Stars for light our heart and free our expression. Keep playing you all, cause the scene today it's not all that it should be.
There is too much media these days. Music can be easily copied with technology, and unfortunately, it probably ruined it for musicians trying to earn a living.
Guitar gods are still being born. Polyphias Tim Henson is a guitar god in the making right now. Ichika, Manuel-Fernandez, even The Omnific has guitar gods and they play those lower sounding silly fat wound 4 string misfit guitars. Good guitar music did not die with EVH.
Someone once asked me who I like better. Jimmy Page or Yngwie. Jimmy had more style in his pinkie than Yngwie had in his entire body. Technically, he's amazing, but I don't like his style at all. There's no hippie there. About the only guy I like who could pull off the classical stuff and still sound cool is Ritchie Blackmore.
@@guthrie1181 I've heard a lot of him, but I don't like his style. He's a master player, but that don't mean shit to me. I go by style. I know he can play extremely fast. So what?
Flavio Barretto GSP seems like such a down to Earth kinda guy. I'm not surprised to hear you say that, most of those fighters are so humble and big Kids, but I guess getting punched in the face and submitted in practice every day has a humbling effect 😂
Paul Gilbert is the grandaddy of shred:I still remember a neighbour i had,killer guitar player and session musician,invited me to his house and started showing me things....i wasnt a total beginner, i had some years of classical guitar under my belt but never touched an electric....when asked him how in the hell you go about learning to play like that....he showed me a video tape of intense rock and i was watching with open mouth paul laying the foundations of modern electric guitar technique..with an open mouth...lol. So i dont know if this is pauls channel but regardless....Thank you Paul for being such a legend.....you have been a huge influence for legions of guitarists throughout the years.
his facial expressions and the way he tell those stories its like the exact day and time he learned them cool nice guy unlike other guitar player paul is humble and the smiles he’s awesome
EVH is my favorite player, and the reason I picked up the guitar as a 2nd instrument to being a drummer. But if I could play like any guitarist in the world, it would be Paul Gilbert. He is what I consider to be the best all around guitar player.
Paul is such an awesome human being. I had the pleasure of meeting him several years ago at a clinic in Pensacola. I had long since been a fan. On my to work one morning I heard the advertisement on the radio for the clinic that night. As soon as I got to work I didn't ask, I told my boss that I was leaving early. It was the only time in my life I've ever been star struck. I felt like such an idiot afterwards. Lol.
It’s awesome to see that even the most skilled players look up to other advanced ones and also feel intimidated at times (specially throughout their development, obviously). While, on the other hand, some dudes pretend like they have always been confident and greater than everyone around them from day one!
I was born in 86, the way you're describing Yngwie is how your techniques along side of Yngwie's have inspired me for the better part of 30years.. that part of my brain that says to myself "tighten up those musical screws" Same deal with listening to Billy 🤘 Rock on Paul ! Ty for tons of great music and the inspiration that's guided me for 30some years of love for guitar
I've met Paul" he signed my Fender USA" met Yngwie when I worked at Carls Jn in Woodland hills in 1985 or 86" he was driving that same Jaguar that he crashed in years later..
Paul gilbert you’re a fantastic musician, i was in the first row in one of your concert just as you did with bikky sheehan...i still can’t believe your playing...i wish you well, very inspiring musician
For an absolutely immense guitar player, he is wonderfully humble! To me, Paul is the pinnacle of what it is to be a musician and teacher - honest, knowledgeable, engaging, a fantastic communicator and passionate about sharing knowledge. What a great guy!!
Love guys like Paul G and Jeff Beck. Guys that have been around and, truthfully, have been legends for decades,... but they still are always learning new techniques and licks and are just as excited to play guitar as they were when they were kids. And the love they have for sharing their tips and techniques is so impressive it has inspired me to finally start learning guitar at the age of 45.
Good job with the comparison to Beck! They are kindred spirits- true musicians who never stopped evolving and progressing! I started playing at age 14 and past 50, still making music!
I love Yngwie, and each day I admire more and more Paul! And of course, I love his music. He is probably the most technical player to STILL maintain de total rock n' roll spirit on the playing. Also, it's GREAT to watch Paul Gilbert to say "most of my life I've never used a metronome". That "summer of the metronome" thing was a great sharing story, because the same happened to me. Crossing my fingers to Paul's skill ever happen too LOL one day, maybe
i remember nuno Bettencourt saying something very similar on the topic of not learning what another player does exactly right but learning it so that it sounds right to you
So many others have stated this in their comments, but I think it bears repeating.... Paul Gilbert is awesome. Even at this point in time, when he's established in the pantheon as one of the single greatest guitarists of all times, he's still just a kid who loves playing guitar, That's incredibly inspiring.
Paul is so awesome! Every musician should learn from his humble way of being and his forever love, pasion and joy for his instrument. So inspiring! \m/
When YOu said not learning it exactly right made YOU better.....I LOVE THAT....Everyone SHOULD remember that because that is what makes EACH OTHER different and Great...Your ears and how convicted You are to ......Uh....YOU!!!! Thanks Paul!!
He has only three strings in the bottom neck, all of which are tuned to different octaves of E (low E, 1 step up D string, and high E). As far as I know, he got it custom built just to play his song Get Off My Yard live, so that he wouldn't have to switch guitars after the crazy arpeggio madness intro.
There are virtuosos, great players, just another dude that shreds, the 3-chord guys and everything in between and there's the professor - Paul Gilbert.
I had also studied Yngwie before I saw Gilbert’s instructional. Soon after I had encountered the acoustic Guitar Trio. It was easy to decipher the patterns they used, I am sure these are note for note taken from them. Gilbert’s 4 notes up and down is from Al, the 6’s pattern he shows here is from Mclaughlin (Yngwie quotes the same run from Aspan in ill see the light tonight and Trilogy), and Yngwie’s 4 note sequence such as the opening riff of Viking and other spots, from Paco de Lucia’s favorite runs. Of course Yngwie’s use of diminished 7th is from Dimeola as well.
He himself is great and fast. But, he never feels ashamed of acknowledging other guitar players. That makes you even a greater guitarist in my eye Paul.
And in ex Yugoslavia we found somebody who has an uncle in USA to buy your VHS guitar school...and we practice the whole summer... :) Thank you Mr. Paul Gilbert !!!!
Wow you had some really supportive parents. Mine weren't so into my playing guitar even though they were both trained musicians. I had to stay up at night during high school to practice at night. No amp. Kramer focus 6000. Then it got taken away and my friends would leave one of their guitars outside my window at night and I would open my window and pull it in for the night and put it out before school. Those were the days.
@@frankpaws, my dad did the same shit to me. He wasn't a musician but he showed me Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi and JS Bach recordings when I was just 4 years old. Every single time I said I wanted to have a musical instrument or be and skateboarder he said no, because I was going to do bad in high school. You know what I did? When I was 19 I quit University, told him to fuck off and became a guitar player starting from zero. Nowadays he respects my skills. He wanted me to be an engineer.
I've been playing guitar for almost 17 years. I'm not even 1/10th as good as Paul gilbert is after all these years. I would love to train and study as his student.
I did the turn table thing back in the day. I would record the slowed down version on cassette and then take it to my room and practice. If anybody ever played those tapes they would think something is wrong!!! Haha!
This won't be an original post but I'll say it anyway: Paul is such a humble guy who endlessly compliments and praises other guitarists even though he himself is a MONSTER musician. Love it.
Paul was my first guitar idol. Not because I knew who he was. I didn’t. When I bought my first Ibanez starter set, he was the calming face and voice that made the impossible task of simply learning to hold the thing right and playing notes seem so easy. One of the greatest instructors I’ve ever seen. The way he conceptualizes thing makes you have lightbulb moments where you ask yourself how you couldn’t have known that. He doesent take himself seriously. Never stop being you Paul. There aren’t teachers like you in the world anymore.
I watch the clips of all the picking experts looking for little nuggets of wisdom that can help me. Using the metronome to SLOW you down is pure gold. It took me a long time to figure that out. My videos don't reflect it because I've been woodshedding on picking for five years now and haven't written anything new, but slowing down to hardwire the technique is so important in enabling the capacity, ultimately, to step on the gas at the end of the process. Paul Gilbert and Shawn Lane both say very pertinent things about picking.
Oh, I remember the telephone days. That's how I heard Ride the Lighting for the first time. I was standing in a phone booth, and feeding it coins so could I hear more and more. My friend had put the record on and left the phone on the table :)
I think what he's saying is a lot of people try to play that lick and just jump into it picking as fast as they can (basically tremelo picking) and moving the fingers on their left hand as fast as they can hoping for the best and can't figure out why it sounds horrible. Use a metronome to focus on the beat and use that to slow your hands down and get them synced up together so that lick sounds clean and articulate like Yngwie himself plays it. I caught myself doing this years ago when I first started attempting to learn Yngwie's music, then I started noticing how that first note always starts on the beat. So focus on the beat and make sure you downstroke the note on the beat, and it helps keep your hands from drifting apart. Troy Grady actually has a great video on this. He calls it "chunking". Yngwie's licks are actually very rythmic and symmetrical. It's almost set up more like violin music. Once you start to realize how carefully his licks are constructed, it really starts to make sense how he's always able to play that stuff so cleanly (Even though he swears he has no idea how he does it. Bullshit. Lol). Good luck!
No worries..Yes slow down..most of the time your left hand will be the deciding speed hand..I find myself having to sync my hands more often than one or the other in tempo..
Get your metronome and start practise. I tell you. You cant imagine what you can archieve in 6 month with some discipline. There are very good Gilbert Lessonvideos. Also check some Yngwie stuff.
not huge fan of paul but he is so humble and loves teaching reminds me or Randy in terms of loving to share and make everyone better and share his advice
he never ashamed that he learned something from anybody and sharing it like he is still a child
Thats why he is a great guitarist..humble and honest and keep learning
Fauzi Saril Harry he’s an even greater teacher. People don’t give him enough credit for his ability to communicate.
Your right i was gonna say his communicating explaining things with different approachs (the way music works) i wish he'd taught and explained like this on his first instructional on vhs. On a recent UA-cam video Paul talks about learning pop songs (vocal melodys) how lead singer never sing the 7th note even though the vocal melody is in a minor penatonic scale. Pop singers don't sing up and down scales .I would like hear a glow pop singer sing a cromatic scale using octave disspacments at warped speed. Octaves displaced in dimintional hyper space do not sound as good slow.
dejental
Speaking of great teachers, nobody can beat Guthrie Govan. Rick Beato is also amazing
The good thing is that's what most of great guitarist community does, they support each other, respect the elder, befriend with all guitarist, and appreciate new comers. Love it!
Paul is a down to earth guy. Everybody was bashing Yngwie in the early 1990s, and a lot of the guitarists who bashed him have an eight hour job now, and aren't in music. Paul is sincere. He doesn't bash other musicians to make himself look better.
Probably 8-5. 9-5 doesn't seem to exist anymore lol.
Like Wingwang constantly does. 😆
@@therightisright8276 I actually hate Yngwie now. Especially because he can't sing, and he is a D*CK to his former singers.
I always thought this bashing was unfair, because even to this time his guitar tone, his feel while playing is goosebump material... the neo-classical noodleing is not everyones cup of tea, ok, but his tone alone is majestic.
Humility is a beautiful thing to witness.
i know right? this godly guitar player still feels like some normal guy
This is why he is one of my fav
Maxx61 Yeah... It's ironic that he's talking about Yngwie.
That's not humility, not arrogance either. It's called honesty.
Mike Hawk dork
Paul G must be considered one of the top guitar players around today. He is the only player that was able to reinvent himself after the 80s guitar hero thing the super fast of the virtuoso. He became better and better during the years, his technique and style never stops or involve in itself. Look how he used to play with Mr Big, he was great, but 20 years later he is not repeating the same licks, he moved on! rock on Paul
Amen. He is one of the best guitar players in the world - Period. This guy, like you said, never stops improving. He is so damn accurate, fast, and melodic at the same time, I just cannot stop listening to his material.
I agree, and besides Paul is being very humble, actually I am pretty sure there is Paul's stuff that Yngwie couldn't play as good as Paul does, not mentioning he has the ability to "teach" there are a lot of incredible players, but that don't make them good music teachers
Ricardo Falconi
Absolutely true.
With all that said... Yngwie is the king. He is a legend of legends.
Maybe you dont know Shawn Lane
I love how his dad built a metronome.
Horns up!
Petrucci, Gilbert, MacAlpine, Moore, etc., all said, "Yngwie scared me into playing better." Almost verbatim. Without a doubt, Malmsteen was the GOD of the mid 1980's on the scene that made Van Halen's incredible solos seem slopping. Malmsteen CLEANED UP guitar playing for shredders and it went from metal to mental playing.
idk man evh will always be better than yngwie, yngwie didn’t revolutionize electric guitar like him
@@CriminalOne k
Unfortunately YJM never left the 80s
@@marshallp7013 They both helped revolutionize electric guitar playing. Pre-Yngwie and Post-Yngwie was a huge difference in the guitar scene, same way EVH blew the doors off in 1978 with tapping they never heard before (people tapped here and there beforehand but never to the level EVH did it.) They were both hugely significant and influential. Just because you can argue EVH was even more popular than Yngwie doesn't mean Yngwie didn't revolutionize guitar as well. Yngwie was still huge too.
@@CriminalOne Agree, it's too bad most people give Yngwie crap today (I can see why somehow) because it kind of diminish how insane he used to be. Rising force came out when he was 21.freaking.years old. I consider this album such a huge milestone in guitar playing, it has everything. People that say he has no feeling/just play fast (ok maybe today yes) are completely foolish, and I doubt they have listened to his early album. He's a genius. We're so lucky that today we can listen to bootleg of his solo in the 80s, they are mindblowing. I'm not a fan of his later album, but what he did with Alcatrazz and his first 3 albums alone are incredible.
I think he should drop the whole image he has of being stuck in the 90s and maybe just dress up more casual, he's becoming more and more of an Elvis impersonator for metal. I doubt he will change but well. Real recognise real, and while I listen to a lot of other guitarist, Yngwie will always be the king for me.
The first song of Yngwie’s I heard was You don’t remember I’ll never forget. I was not scared by it. It was magical, energetic, ferocious....beautiful. Pure inspiration.
For sure, that solo really is magical. It's about as perfect of a solo as you can get, and I love how the main solo bleeds into the outro solo. Just pure awesomeness. Cheers
He is awesome. I'm goning to keep that "Thank You, Yngwie". That's something we all should say instead of fighting for who is the best. We must thank to all this Stars for light our heart and free our expression. Keep playing you all, cause the scene today it's not all that it should be.
There is too much media these days. Music can be easily copied with technology, and unfortunately, it probably ruined it for musicians trying to earn a living.
He is a profound guitar player and musician. He is one of the few guitar gods left.
It's good he's sharing
Guitar gods are still being born. Polyphias Tim Henson is a guitar god in the making right now. Ichika, Manuel-Fernandez, even The Omnific has guitar gods and they play those lower sounding silly fat wound 4 string misfit guitars. Good guitar music did not die with EVH.
@@mattschmitt9924come on
Such a great dude, great player, and great teacher! Cheers Paul!
The "Thank you, Yngwie" part is so cool.
mp you’d never hear Yngwie say that to anyone.
Harry Balszak He thanks Bach and Paganini
Someone once asked me who I like better. Jimmy Page or Yngwie. Jimmy had more style in his pinkie than Yngwie had in his entire body. Technically, he's amazing, but I don't like his style at all. There's no hippie there. About the only guy I like who could pull off the classical stuff and still sound cool is Ritchie Blackmore.
Tim Rubin Halcomb You haven’t heard much Yngwie then
@@guthrie1181 I've heard a lot of him, but I don't like his style. He's a master player, but that don't mean shit to me. I go by style. I know he can play extremely fast. So what?
So awesome and so humble
“Metronomically into the groove...”
Don’t ever change.
Paul Gilbert, the nicest guitarist ever. I have the same feeling when I see Georges St-Pierre, the nicest fighter ever.
Flavio Barretto GSP seems like such a down to Earth kinda guy. I'm not surprised to hear you say that, most of those fighters are so humble and big Kids, but I guess getting punched in the face and submitted in practice every day has a humbling effect 😂
John Frusciante
Flavio Barretto the human blanket GSP? ;)
GSP is Paul Gilbert of UFC? 😆
GSP is the GOAT
This man is very humble. I love him. Never condemn others. A true guitar teacher.
Mike Varney was calling him at 15?
"but when I heard Yngwie I was like...I gotta get ready.." no kidding huh?
Paul Gilbert is the grandaddy of shred:I still remember a neighbour i had,killer guitar player and session musician,invited me to his house and started showing me things....i wasnt a total beginner, i had some years of classical guitar under my belt but never touched an electric....when asked him how in the hell you go about learning to play like that....he showed me a video tape of intense rock and i was watching with open mouth paul laying the foundations of modern electric guitar technique..with an open mouth...lol.
So i dont know if this is pauls channel but regardless....Thank you Paul for being such a legend.....you have been a huge influence for legions of guitarists throughout the years.
Humble, talented, lived and breathed the 80's at the top tier, in excess I imagine! He's got nothing to prove! 🎸 🎶🎵🎼🙌🏻
for some reason he reminds me of my grandpa...man hes gonna be a great grandpa someday.
love you paul., i learned so much from you
Vertigo 101 i owed a career thanx to his first 2 videos
Me too
humble dude
It took me 2 years to get...technical difficulties...to sound good.....awesome player.
GAY
his facial expressions and the way he tell those stories its like the exact day and time he learned them cool nice guy unlike other guitar player paul is humble and the smiles he’s awesome
EVH is my favorite player, and the reason I picked up the guitar as a 2nd instrument to being a drummer.
But if I could play like any guitarist in the world, it would be Paul Gilbert.
He is what I consider to be the best all around guitar player.
Paul is such an awesome human being. I had the pleasure of meeting him several years ago at a clinic in Pensacola. I had long since been a fan. On my to work one morning I heard the advertisement on the radio for the clinic that night. As soon as I got to work I didn't ask, I told my boss that I was leaving early. It was the only time in my life I've ever been star struck. I felt like such an idiot afterwards. Lol.
Paul is great in every aspect, virtuoso, teacher, human, humble, honest, flexible, you name it
He is such a huge fan of any music. So positive. And ridiculous. Love his style. So good.
It’s awesome to see that even the most skilled players look up to other advanced ones and also feel intimidated at times (specially throughout their development, obviously). While, on the other hand, some dudes pretend like they have always been confident and greater than everyone around them from day one!
Everyone sucks in the beginning...EVERYONE.
👍😎🍺
I was born in 86, the way you're describing Yngwie is how your techniques along side of Yngwie's have inspired me for the better part of 30years.. that part of my brain that says to myself "tighten up those musical screws"
Same deal with listening to Billy 🤘
Rock on Paul !
Ty for tons of great music and the inspiration that's guided me for 30some years of love for guitar
I've met Paul" he signed my Fender USA" met Yngwie when I worked at Carls Jn in Woodland hills in 1985 or 86" he was driving that same Jaguar that he crashed in years later..
Paul gilbert you’re a fantastic musician, i was in the first row in one of your concert just as you did with bikky sheehan...i still can’t believe your playing...i wish you well, very inspiring musician
For an absolutely immense guitar player, he is wonderfully humble! To me, Paul is the pinnacle of what it is to be a musician and teacher - honest, knowledgeable, engaging, a fantastic communicator and passionate about sharing knowledge. What a great guy!!
Love guys like Paul G and Jeff Beck. Guys that have been around and, truthfully, have been legends for decades,... but they still are always learning new techniques and licks and are just as excited to play guitar as they were when they were kids. And the love they have for sharing their tips and techniques is so impressive it has inspired me to finally start learning guitar at the age of 45.
Good job with the comparison to Beck! They are kindred spirits- true musicians who never stopped evolving and progressing! I started playing at age 14 and past 50, still making music!
Paul's ability to take a "non-guitar" song and cover it is pure genius.
paul is the version of keanu reaves in guitar.. I dont know, im just a weird guy =(
Well said
You know, seeing Mr. Big photos through the years: Billy never gets young and Paul never gets old
Nah man... both are nice guys but unlike Keanu, Paul is actually a master at his craft.
Nah, dude . . . I get it!
Aizu Hakimi you nailed it !!
Amazing aspect of Paul's playing is you can tell everything he has worked on has been shredded to death with a metronome.
Paul G, who is one of the best guitarplayers on this planet, seems to be a very nice and humble person !
Regs from Yngwieland-Sweden/Kent
I love Yngwie, and each day I admire more and more Paul! And of course, I love his music. He is probably the most technical player to STILL maintain de total rock n' roll spirit on the playing.
Also, it's GREAT to watch Paul Gilbert to say "most of my life I've never used a metronome". That "summer of the metronome" thing was a great sharing story, because the same happened to me. Crossing my fingers to Paul's skill ever happen too LOL one day, maybe
I love Ingwie and Paul and all the other fantastic players from the old days.. I am so glad to be born in the right decade 🤘😋
i remember nuno Bettencourt saying something very similar on the topic of not learning what another player does exactly right but learning it so that it sounds right to you
Paolo Ghezzo that’s actually genius
So many others have stated this in their comments, but I think it bears repeating.... Paul Gilbert is awesome. Even at this point in time, when he's established in the pantheon as one of the single greatest guitarists of all times, he's still just a kid who loves playing guitar, That's incredibly inspiring.
Now Billy is frightening. Killer bassist!
Listening to both since 80's
Paul is so awesome! Every musician should learn from his humble way of being and his forever love, pasion and joy for his instrument. So inspiring! \m/
He is so humble and plays it all with a smile
Mr Gilbert was the one the really changed the way I play guitar, the dude is such an amazing teacher and I could listen to his stories all day!
I love this guy. I could listen to him for hours. Oh yeah.. pretty good guitarist too :-)
Rare, Down to earth Dude. Doesn't talk down. Just wants to Play. Like Us.
When YOu said not learning it exactly right made YOU better.....I LOVE THAT....Everyone SHOULD remember that because that is what makes EACH OTHER different and Great...Your ears and how convicted You are to ......Uh....YOU!!!! Thanks Paul!!
I always loved Paul's honesty! He always gives us the embarrassing truth! LOL! Love you, Paul!
Most sensible headstock(s) I've seen on a double neck.
different tuning
He has only three strings in the bottom neck, all of which are tuned to different octaves of E (low E, 1 step up D string, and high E). As far as I know, he got it custom built just to play his song Get Off My Yard live, so that he wouldn't have to switch guitars after the crazy arpeggio madness intro.
Marc Jacobi Cool as hell concept..
Looks like something for spearing whales.
You can bet the body needs the weight relief of the F holes.
There are virtuosos, great players, just another dude that shreds, the 3-chord guys and everything in between and there's the professor - Paul Gilbert.
Paul Gilbert is one of my favorites of all time. Great guy killer guitar player
I had also studied Yngwie before I saw Gilbert’s instructional. Soon after I had encountered the acoustic Guitar Trio. It was easy to decipher the patterns they used, I am sure these are note for note taken from them. Gilbert’s 4 notes up and down is from Al, the 6’s pattern he shows here is from Mclaughlin (Yngwie quotes the same run from Aspan in ill see the light tonight and Trilogy), and Yngwie’s 4 note sequence such as the opening riff of Viking and other spots, from Paco de Lucia’s favorite runs. Of course Yngwie’s use of diminished 7th is from Dimeola as well.
He himself is great and fast. But, he never feels ashamed of acknowledging other guitar players. That makes you even a greater guitarist in my eye Paul.
Great guy, musician and composer.
I love Paul Gilbert. Probably the most humble Guitar Superhero?
Gilbert is one of the most humble guitar gods on Earth. Good man.
1:51 I practiced this lick a lot, when you reach the level when you can play it fast it’s a dream feeling.
And in ex Yugoslavia we found somebody who has an uncle in USA to buy your VHS guitar school...and we practice the whole summer... :) Thank you Mr. Paul Gilbert !!!!
MR. Paul is the BEST!!!
Once I heard him I was ruined! Ha.I played the wind blowing.He,and Paul blew me away!
Wow you had some really supportive parents. Mine weren't so into my playing guitar even though they were both trained musicians. I had to stay up at night during high school to practice at night. No amp. Kramer focus 6000. Then it got taken away and my friends would leave one of their guitars outside my window at night and I would open my window and pull it in for the night and put it out before school.
Those were the days.
And what the hell did they want you to do instead?
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Same; id like to know tis too?
@@zombiemachinery4868 Not exactly sure. Think about school more I guess, even though I didn't have school problems or anything.
@@frankpaws, my dad did the same shit to me. He wasn't a musician but he showed me Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi and JS Bach recordings when I was just 4 years old. Every single time I said I wanted to have a musical instrument or be and skateboarder he said no, because I was going to do bad in high school. You know what I did? When I was 19 I quit University, told him to fuck off and became a guitar player starting from zero. Nowadays he respects my skills.
He wanted me to be an engineer.
Cool as always and nowadays he's much more into teaching the basics, which is great.
Paul & Yngwie .... 2 of my Favorite Guitarists ! 🎸💯💥
I've been playing guitar for almost 17 years. I'm not even 1/10th as good as Paul gilbert is after all these years. I would love to train and study as his student.
I did the turn table thing back in the day. I would record the slowed down version on cassette and then take it to my room and practice. If anybody ever played those tapes they would think something is wrong!!! Haha!
Paul is a genuinely nice, humble guy. (as well as an insanely skilled artist!). Love you and your work brother!
Paul always teaching us old dogs new tricks..I thank you at 60 yrs old! Sir
Paul Gilbert is living legend and down to earth
What a legend!
Petrucci and Gilbert like Yngwie.
Thank you very much, Yngwie.
Peace be to you,
Kind person Paul. How Jesus loves you. The Mister Rogers of music. May you always have ears to hear.
Paul Gilbert very very good player very influenced at begginings for Yngwie's style I like both at all.
For a guy that is soooooooo good and accurate, and so honest and humble, I would just love to shake your hand. What a Human...
Such a talented yet humble guy.
This won't be an original post but I'll say it anyway: Paul is such a humble guy who endlessly compliments and praises other guitarists even though he himself is a MONSTER musician. Love it.
Paul was my first guitar idol. Not because I knew who he was. I didn’t. When I bought my first Ibanez starter set, he was the calming face and voice that made the impossible task of simply learning to hold the thing right and playing notes seem so easy. One of the greatest instructors I’ve ever seen. The way he conceptualizes thing makes you have lightbulb moments where you ask yourself how you couldn’t have known that. He doesent take himself seriously. Never stop being you Paul. There aren’t teachers like you in the world anymore.
I watch the clips of all the picking experts looking for little nuggets of wisdom that can help me. Using the metronome to SLOW you down is pure gold. It took me a long time to figure that out. My videos don't reflect it because I've been woodshedding on picking for five years now and haven't written anything new, but slowing down to hardwire the technique is so important in enabling the capacity, ultimately, to step on the gas at the end of the process. Paul Gilbert and Shawn Lane both say very pertinent things about picking.
Thanks for mentioning Shawn Lane.. your awesome Paul.. stay safe brother,... Rodney
Love paul gilbert ,Racer x and mr big
One of my lifetime idols
I would love to just hang out with Paul and listen to him tell stories of his influences and career. what a cool dude
He needs a show called " guitar talk",and updated version of that Japanese show he did with Marty..
Paul is The most humble guitar Hero of all time.
love that shy boy lick. thank u paul and yngwie either of course
Paul Gilbert seems to be not only virtuoso but also very humble man. To some degree he resembles me with this feature Steve Vai and Joe Stariani.
Paul is such an incredible person. Always up beat, kind and inspiring. He's also great at teaching and of course an excellent musician!
I love hearing Paul tell these stories. You don't have to play guitar to appreciate the musicianship because it applies to any instrument.
That's true so I enjoyed this video: ua-cam.com/video/OmEKosvH5OM/v-deo.html
Oh, I remember the telephone days. That's how I heard Ride the Lighting for the first time. I was standing in a phone booth, and feeding it coins so could I hear more and more. My friend had put the record on and left the phone on the table :)
A metronome to slow yourself down? :(
Ok, I quit, I will never reach Paul's crazy speed.
I think what he's saying is a lot of people try to play that lick and just jump into it picking as fast as they can (basically tremelo picking) and moving the fingers on their left hand as fast as they can hoping for the best and can't figure out why it sounds horrible. Use a metronome to focus on the beat and use that to slow your hands down and get them synced up together so that lick sounds clean and articulate like Yngwie himself plays it. I caught myself doing this years ago when I first started attempting to learn Yngwie's music, then I started noticing how that first note always starts on the beat. So focus on the beat and make sure you downstroke the note on the beat, and it helps keep your hands from drifting apart. Troy Grady actually has a great video on this. He calls it "chunking". Yngwie's licks are actually very rythmic and symmetrical. It's almost set up more like violin music. Once you start to realize how carefully his licks are constructed, it really starts to make sense how he's always able to play that stuff so cleanly (Even though he swears he has no idea how he does it. Bullshit. Lol). Good luck!
No worries..Yes slow down..most of the time your left hand will be the deciding speed hand..I find myself having to sync my hands more often than one or the other in tempo..
Such a great cool guy and a fantastic guitarist....
Gilbert is my favorite
Paul gilbert you rock man, you are the best, keep rocking man ...
You are one of my Great Guitarist list.you are great.
love you paul thanks for all you do! cheers from Canada
The most honest and humble musician you will ever come across..thanks PG!
Paul Gilbert is the best plus he is from muy dads home town of Greensburg Pa.
What a handsome, descent and humble master!
Paul's chops are insanely awesome. If I could play half as fast and cleanly as he does, I'd be getting somewhere for sure.
Get your metronome and start practise. I tell you. You cant imagine what you can archieve in 6 month with some discipline. There are very good Gilbert Lessonvideos. Also check some Yngwie stuff.
not huge fan of paul but he is so humble and loves teaching reminds me or Randy in terms of loving to share and make everyone better and share his advice
Love Paul. He is so good.
One of the coolest, nicest and cleanest guitar players!
2:13 *is what sets Paul's humility above from everybody else.*